From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC PATCH v2 2/3] net: phy: Add support for Aeonsemi AS21xxx PHYs
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:57:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3cddcf4-bdcc-49f4-9d72-309854895c7c@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z-QG4w425UuYXZOX@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
> In summary, I really don't like this approach - it feels too much of a
> hack, _and_ introduces the potential for drivers that makes use of this
> to get stuff really very wrong. In my opinion that's not a model that
> we should add to the kernel.
I agree.
>
> I'll say again - why can't the PHY firmware be loaded by board firmware.
> You've been silent on my feedback on this point. Given that you're
> ignoring me... for this patch series...
And i still think using the match op is something that should be
investigated, alongside the bootloader loading firmware.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-26 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-26 0:23 [net-next RFC PATCH v2 0/3] net: phy: Add support for new Aeonsemi PHYs Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 0:23 ` [net-next RFC PATCH v2 1/3] net: phy: permit PHYs to register a second time Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 0:23 ` [net-next RFC PATCH v2 2/3] net: phy: Add support for Aeonsemi AS21xxx PHYs Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 13:53 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-26 13:57 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2025-03-26 14:47 ` Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 14:43 ` Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 18:02 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-26 14:00 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-26 14:05 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-26 14:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-03-26 15:09 ` Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 18:08 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-26 18:18 ` Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 18:32 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-26 0:23 ` [net-next RFC PATCH v2 3/3] dt-bindings: net: Document support for Aeonsemi PHYs Christian Marangi
2025-03-26 15:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-03-26 15:16 ` Christian Marangi
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